COLORES

 

"Colores is like a deep healing - a moment of philosophical and emotional reflection, where I both cried and felt joy."

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Colores is a innovative flamenco performance where a choir, singers, dancers and a guitarist, with the language of flamenco, investigates the different borderlands of existence. What happens when night meats day, weeping meets laughter, movement meet stillness, sound meets silence? What exists where life meets death?The show is a intercultural cooperation between Sweden and Mexico, where the mexican dancer Ricardo Rubio has been invited to work with flamenco artists from World Dance Company and the choir Voces Flamencas.

 

The performance was inspired by many talks about life issues and the flamenco art as such. Questions were raised about the space between different life stages, such as creation, life, death, sorrow and release. How could we as flamenco artists, wanting to expand the flamenco expression, express this with our own tools? Colores is the result of this investigation, striving to keep the questions alive, not giving answers. The show is a intercultural cooperation between Sweden and Mexico, where the mexican dancer Ricardo Rubio has been invited to work with flamenco artists from World Dance Company in Gothenburg. Colores had its premiere in September 2016 at Kronhuset in Gothenburg.

 

The show was premiered in September 2016 at Kronhuset in Gothenburg. and was performed during two evenings. The audience was deeply and stongly moved by Colores. Many people told us after the show that they've been experiencing like a deep healing - a moment of philosophical and emotional reflection, where they were both crying, feeling joy, almost stopped breathing.

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Dancers: Ricardo Rubio is a member of Mexicos ” National System of Art Creators by FONCA” (an statebased cultural organisation where artists with special importance for the cultural identity of the country, are elected). His work is characterized by an innovatively approach to the art of flamenco.

Eva Milich is active as a flamencodancer and educator since 20 years. She is one of the founders of World Dance Company in Gothenburg and member of the group Flamenco En Marcha.

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Singers: Ellen Pontara is a singer and voiceinvestigator with flamenco as her speciality. She is educated in Sweden and in Spain. During the last fifteen years she has worked with most of the flamencoartists in Scandinavia.

Marianne Holmboe is singer of oriental music and flamenco, educated in Spain and Sweden.

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Guitarist: Jonathan Bondesson belongs to the new generation of nordic flamencoguitarrists. He is now doing his master in the Music Academy in Stockholm.  He has even been studying with some of the great guitarmasters in Sevilla.

 

Choir: Voces Flamencas is the only Flamencochoir in Sweden. They are led by Ellen Pontara.